Literatura, arte e terapia: o livro-objeto e suas possibilidades

Abstract

This research aims to add therapeutic values and specificities to the book-object, seeking theoretical references that qualify such a proposition. As it represents a hybrid object, the book-object presents creative, imaginative, symbolic and emotional potential, characteristics and potential qualities to validate and ensure its use as an instrument and/or support in psychic or non-psychic therapies, as well as helping to understand and re-signify of particular questions of the reader/appreciator in isolated moments of reading/appreciation. Thus, the object of this research consists of analyzing and qualifying the book-object and its therapeutic possibilities, understanding and demonstrating its value, in addition to its distracting and decorative qualities. The specific objectives consist of realizing the importance of art and literature for humanity, relating them; define and contextualize the book-object as an instrument that goes beyond literary and artistic prerogatives, demonstrating its therapeutic potential; analyze the creative, imaginative, fantasy and sensitive potential present in the images and in the different formats and configurations of book-objects, and perceive and demonstrate, through experience, their therapeutic potential. The theoretical basis for this considers Aristotle's catharsis; the effects of reception aesthetics, by Iser and Jauss, Gestalt therapy and Gestalt art therapy, by Rodrigues and Ciornai. To demonstrate such propositions, we have as corpus: Carrossel (2016), by Ale Kalko, and Casa da vó (2018), by Lissa Sakajiri, explored in group dynamics to prove the suggested hypotheses and propose a new look at these artistic and literary, whose materiality presents multiple sensory specificities, which can be used and greatly contribute to therapeutic processes